Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

2/ @emptywheel chimes in:

Former Rand and Ron Paul staffer may get the dubious honor of being the first Trump pardon recipient sent to prison -- appropriately, for lying to hide a donation from Russia.

To the stars! ✨

Lingua Libre has just surpassed 900,000 recordings in 193 languages, thanks to 1,246 speakers!

Two years ago, we were at 500,000.

Many thanks and bravo to everyone who makes it possible to create a free audio library that feeds and illustrates @wiktionnaire, #Wikimedia projects in general, and helps #scientists and #LanguageLearners.

❤️

#language #orality #linguistics #research #tool

RFK Jr is a modern day Lyndon LaRouche. A hard-right fascist conspiracy theorist running in the Democratic primary for some reason. With his candidacy we should finally put to rest the concept that there should be any kind of "political royalty" in the United States, as if there ever should have been that concept. https://popular.info/p/gop-donors-fuel-rfk-jrs-presidential

Womp womp

Via Josh Gerstein:

JUST IN: DC Circuit declines to grant bail pending appeal to Jesse Benton, sentenced to 18 months in prison for using #Russia donor's $$$ to set up meeting w/ Trump during 2016 campaign.

Benton got a pardon from #Trump on other charges. #legal 1/...

An interesting question...what's your answer?

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 2984

In Israel the best peoples are fighting on the streets for democracy and freedom against tyranny of bibi new dictatorship move to cancel the supreme court’s!

The underground Crimean Tatar group taking up arms against Russia

A #Crimean #Tatar-led underground movement is already active behind Russian lines and hundreds of young Tatar men are ready to take up arms to liberate the occupied peninsula, a veteran community leader has said.

Mustafa Dzemilev, widely seen as the godfather of the Crimean Tatar rights movement, pointed to operations by the #Atesh #guerrilla #group, comprising Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and Russians, in Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian regions.

Atesh, which means “fire” in Crimean Tatar, was created in September last year, primarily to carry out acts of #sabotage from within the ranks of the Russian army. It claims more than 4,000 Russian soldiers have already enrolled in an online course on how to “survive the war” by wrecking their own equipment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/17/the-underground-crimean-tatar-group-taking-up-arms-against-russia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@CriticalCupcake This is all you need to know about storms right now, the gulf temperature is 98.5° F 5' below the surface. The first tropical storm to come through is going to explode.

Here's the temperature key...

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Scottish doctors have warned the decision to remove face mask guidance in healthcare settings is "playing Russian roulette" with staff and patients' welfare.

Dr Shaun Peter Qureshi, of the Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition, said: "At-risk patients have entirely legitimate concerns that they may endanger their health by visiting their GP or hospital."

#COVID19 #Scotland @auscovid19

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66215539

And finally, my co-author's piece on what it's like to be cut off from music in prison. A painful thing to read, but beautifully written. #incarceration #music

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/musician-in-prison/

Feline coronavirus strain kills 300,000 cats in Cyprus.

#COVID19 #Cyprus @auscovid19

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/dead-cats-lying-covid-kills-300000-felines-mediterranean-island-2023-7

@SenTuberville is an Un-American Traitor & White Supremacist who HATES the US Military
He is also remarkably stupid & utterly unqualified to be a US Senator
A former football coach & the only people dumber than him are the ones who voted him in!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tommy-tuberville-white-nationalists-racist-1234786169/

This is what Union-busting gets you. 2023, and they're just introducing air conditioned trucks. Nationwide across the US, operating in much hotter climates than ours. It took a human fatality to get Amazon to put air conditioning in their Virginia warehouse. Capitalism is dangerous to workers, and it is creating skyrocketing inflation by mooching all the money and spending power away from the masses of consumers to funnel into the static bank accounts of the rich. #Union

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-drivers-track-get-air-conditioned-trucks-first-time-ever-rcna88460

@MSNBC Tuberville would blame the Biden administration for soiling his pants. Nothing this bipedal skid mark says should be taken at face value.

How to use Mastodon:

Step 1: Sign up.

Step 2: Do regular social media stuff.

Journalists: Only those with advanced degrees in computer science should even attempt to navigate Mastodon, the frustrations of its complexities will drive the average user to a state of hysteria.

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”